Lunar New Year

i am somewhat regretting not buying a last-minute ticket home for a week last Friday after my oral exam so i could spend Lunar New Year with my parents and family... it's been more than 10 years since i last spent it at home. i had to wait a week for the exam report to reach me... but had started with some corrections nonetheless... still, it would have been nice to catch up with friends over the festivity even if i might only be home for merely a few days... the warmer weather... the oooh so yummy kuey lapis cake my mummy bakes every new year for visitors to enjoy. sigh... i am kicking myself hard. =( maybe my parents and my brothers and their family might visit me instead... =)

sigh... wouldn't it be nice if one could just beam oneself anywhere! =)

on the more happier note... i got my oral exam report; it's mostly positive (more so than i give my work credit; something which i am still struggling to acknowledge) except for the list of so-called 'minor' corrections etc. and i got to prance about in a pair of new Clarks (which i got for 1/2 price) last friday with my date during the med-school winter ball... i wish they were more into Ceilidhs or Scottish country dancing here... seriously, that's a lot more fun and ahem, "civilized" than bouncing to rock n roll... you get to dance and mingle and be silly among strangers with your date or company of friends all in one single activity... isn't it what 'social' events are for?! =)

i also went downhill skiing last sunday with my colleague and some of his Brazilian friends and am happy to say i didn't fall and survived the blue trails of the midwest (which are more like the scary green ones in Snowbird -- i never quite finished my anecdote!) and actually enjoyed curving down the slopes. skiing is such a fun sport once you get the hang of the 'basics'! maybe some of the friends i met during the ski-trip might send me the pictures we took that day... maybe they'd forget! oh well.

i am generally more homesick and nostalgic during this time of the year... and any asian-like cuisine here is better than none but is still not as good as what i know i'd get when i do return home to visit again... ahhh the sacrifices of a nomadic existence... sob.

in any case... we have a lot of snow and freezing wind to celebrate the lunar new year of the RAT... squeak!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU CELEBRATING!!!
新年快乐，步步高升！龙马精神！万事如意！

posted by ~overacuppa~ on Sunday, 10 February, 2008 at 12:23 hrs